Support will be unavailable from 10 a.m. EST on Friday, October 9 to 4 a.m. EST on Monday, October 19.

Of course, our team will still be monitoring servers and services while we’re out to keep you blogging smoothly and safely. In the meantime, we encourage you to read through the Support docs and make use of the WordPress.com forums (which are full of friendly users like you) if you need a little help.

While we’re away, we’ll be running a contest to see who can use the WordPress logo in the most creative way. Take advantage of your camera, graphics applications, crayons, and anything else you have at your disposal. Create a post on your WordPress.com blog, upload your image or images, and leave a comment here with the URL of your post. Please make sure to leave the URL to your post in the comment text or the entry will not be accepted.

We’ll get you started by providing some official WordPress logos, but the rest is up to you. I’m sure you can do better than the photos I’ve included here. We’ll keep an eye on submissions and post some of them to the @wordpressdotcom Twitter account during the week.

The deadline for submissions will be 4 p.m. EST on Monday, October 19.

We’ll create categories based on the best submissions and run polls to let you select the winners. Prizes will include WordPress.com upgrades, swag, and maybe other surprises. Good luck!

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Have a good time BUT why in the world would you shut down the “help” pages just because support is gone think about it if you’re not here to help maybe we can find the answer there if not we can use the foroum or wait for you to get back

Does this have to be a picture of the WordPress logo in a unique location (similar to your example pictures) or can it be a graphical reinterpretation of the WordPress logo (e.g. a sketch that incorporates the logo, but the logo is part of the sketch and not the original logo image)? Looks like a fun contest either way!

This is the first of my efforts to enter into the contest. Hope you people like it. I will be including more of such fun images in this post only, as it is allowed to post multiple images in one post.
Thanks to WordPress team for bringing such an interesting contest.

Wow! When you say the WP support team will still be monitoring servers and services, you really mean it. Last night when I logged in to edit, spell check, and schedule my post, all services disappeared for quite some time. What a time for you to have a server problem! One couldn’t even log out. I finally went to bed and got up at 3 a.m. to schedule the post. Everything was working great then. Hope the problem wasn’t too hard to fix.

The WordPress team is really dedicated. Thank you very much. That’s what makes WordPress a truly great place to share with the world.

I hope it’s a great time for you all, but I’m really surprised that WordPress would consider leaving absolutely no one at all on support for 10 days. Sorry to be saying something negative, as I’m a new WordPress blog owner, who’s totally delighted with everything else here.

We’re taking time out to improve services for you. We’re still keeping an eye on things while we’re away. If you’re having issues with your blog, please post to the forums and you’ll get great advice from fine users like you, or it’ll get flagged for our attention.